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Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Seeking asylum, Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the police scuffled with and arrest ...[Read more]
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster three years ago has superseded the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 as the worst nuclear power plant disaster in the world. Nuclear material continues to spill into the sea from the Fukushima disaster and is now showing up ...[Read more]
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Why does Western media ignore critical information about the snipers that killed Euromaidan protesters in Ukraine?
Support it or oppose it, a coup d’état took place in Kiev after an EU-brokered agreement was signed by the Ukrainian government and the m ...[Read more]
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Under a controversial law in Mississippi that allows the state to prosecute women for causing harm to a fetus, Rennie Gibbs could be sentenced to life in prison because her daughter never took a breath.
As ProPublica reports, Gibbs was just 16 years old w ...[Read more]
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In 1999, when Belgrade was bombed, the children’s hospital was the object of air attacks. It had been singled out by military planners as a strategic target.
NATO acknowledged that that had done it, but to “save the lives” of the newly borne, they d ...[Read more]
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As individual and anonymous consumers, it's seemingly impossible to even estimate the physical ramifications of our daily consumption and waste. While our personal imprints may not seem in themselves worthy of alarm, the combined effect of human's habits ...[Read more]
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Executives at General Motors have answered the age-old question of how much is a life worth. A life is worth 57 cents. ...[Read more]
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Tests have shown that what a woman eats during her pregnancy is easily detectable in her amniotic fluid, and the foetus develops a taste for familiar flavours ...[Read more]
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I had the unique opportunity to spend several days in three different parts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly just referred to as “North” Korea. This was an exceptionally life-changing experience that challenged many of the ...[Read more]
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“You Might Get Hit by a Car”: On Secret Tape, FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing to be Informant
New details have emerged about the FBI’s efforts to turn Muslim Americans living abroad into government informants. An exposé in Mother Jones magazine chronicles the story of an American named named Naji Mansour who was living in Kenya. After he refuse ...[Read more]
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When over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, much of the world expected the United States to step in and employ its satellite and drone fleet to locate the girls. As days turned into weeks, the United States still had not fla ...[Read more]
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